Kerin

“Because there were fewer sources of where to find out anything, there was more listening.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“Someone has said religion lasted longer in Ireland because we were an imaginative people, and so could most vividly picture the fires of Hell.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“Their eyes close and then open as one, looking down on me, and then up at the sky, as the wind circles them and moans, their gaping now, the airy rush their song, the rush: Yes.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“Though on the surface it seemed every person was different, this was not true.

At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.

We must try to see one another in this way.

As suffering, limited beings --

Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo